Year's favourites

For the past few years I have been keeping a list of interesting things I come through. Five max per section, updated whenever.

2025

Music

They are six. I'm so sorry.

• Yet another intoxicating playlist.
• 12 by Westside Gunn (Griselda, 2025).
• Getting Killed by Geese (Partisan, 2025).
• hexed! by Aya (Hyperdub, 2025).
• Safe as Milk by Captain Beefheart (Buddah Records, 1967).
• Guitar by Mac De Marco (Mac's Record Label, 2025).

Movies & TV

• Nosferatu by Robert Eggers (2025).
• Dracula by Luc Besson (2025).
• Baxter by Jérôme Boivin (1989).
• La città proibita by Gabriele Mainetti (2025).
• Pluribus by Vince Gilligan (2025).

Books & Comics

• Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse (Oscar Mondadori, 1927).
• Pharmako/Gnosis by Dave Pendell (Add editore, 2005).
• Count Zero by William Gibson (Mondadori, 2017).
• Crafting Interpreters by Robert Nystrom (Genever Benning, 2021).

2024

Music

• Draoidh by Rustie (Warp, 2024).
• FROG by SUCK (La Pochette Surprise Record, 2019).
• This intoxicating shitty playlist.
• Breathe..Godspeed by Verraco (Timedance, 2024).
• BRAT by Charli xcx (Atlantic, 2024).

Movies

• The Substance by Coralie Fargeat (2024).
• Civil War by Alex Garland (2024).
• Bliss by Mike Cahill (2021).
• Ex Drummer by Koen Mortier (2007).
• Falling Leaves by Aki Kaurismäki (2023).

Books & Comics

• The Black Swan by Nichola Nassim Taleb (Il Saggiatore, 2007).
• Swamp Thing Vol. 1, 2, 3 by Moore, Bissette, Totleben (Panini, 1982).
• The Little Book of Exoplanets by Joshua N. Winn (Princeton University Press, 2023).
• Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller (Scribner, 2022).

Random

• Weathering Software Winter by Hundred Rabbits.
• An app can be a home-cooked meal by Robin Sloan.
• A year of new avenues by Robin Sloan.
• The best video on the web.

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